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Var. Callidryas Ilybliea, Boisduval, Sp. G^n. L6p., 612, n. 11 (1836). 



Var. Callidrvas Florella, S var. Maillanl iu "Notes sur L'llo de la llcuuiou," 

 p. G— 5, pi. 22, tigs. 1—1 (1862). 



Mtth. Wings above sulphur j'ellow, without spot : below citrou — yello ; the frontwings 

 exhibit a transverse disco-cellular brick-red mark, divided bj' yellow nervures ; the hindwings with a 

 silver-centred disco-cellular spot, and a transverse series of indistinct ferruginous points beyond cell. 



Female. Wings above sulj)hur yellow becoming deeper coloured on the outer margin, the 

 nervures terminated by reddish spots ; frontwuigs with large black disco-cellular spots ; the basal costa 

 rosy-tinted : below golden yellow with scattered red-brown hatchings ; frontwings with rosy silver- 

 centred ring-spot at end of cell ; an angulated series of five or sue red<li.sh spots ; the nervures terminating 

 in rosy spots ; hindwings with three silver-centred ring-spots at end of cell and an irregularly arched 

 series of ill-defined reddish spots beyond it ; the nervures terminating in ill-defined rosy spots. 



I have examined specimens from the following localities : — 



?, Sierra Leone, (Foxcroft and Monjan) ; Ashauti, B. M. ; Senegal, ColL Druce ; Abomey, Coll. 

 Saunders ; Jladagascar, Coll. T. De Grey. 



Dr. Boisduval seems to be the only Lepidopterist, who has been favoured witli a sight of the 

 male of this species, it is in none of the collections to which I have access, and (so far as I can judge 

 from the writings of Messrs. Trimen, Wallengren, and others), has not made its appearance since the 

 publication of the Species GiSneral ; indeed Dr. Wallengren, in the Svenska Handlingar, evidently 

 ■•■'nsiders the male C. Pijrene to be that sex of C. Florella. 



In the Species General, Dr. Boisduval, described the typical female, C. Florella (under its true 

 name), as the female of C. Pyrene, in all probability compiling his description from that of Fabricius : 

 Mr. Trimen in his " Rhopalocera Africaj Australis" translated Dr. Boisduval's description, with the 

 following remark : — " Having only seen males of this species, I am obliged to borrow the above 

 description of the female from M. Boisduval's work ;" under the localities, however, I find " Interior 

 of South Africa, Sierra Leone, St. Vincent (Cape Verd Islands). — Coll. Brit. Mus.," which proves to 

 me that my friend Trimen, (like Mr. Doubleday and myself), was under the inlluence of the Boisdu- 

 vahan description, when he examined the Museum specimens (See localities at p. 44 of this work). 

 In a foot-note to the same page, however, Mr. Trimen says, "A $ of Florella, in Mr. D'Urban's 

 collection confirms Mr. Swainson's statement, being identical in colour and marking with the (J ;" I 

 mention the above facts to explain a note in my Fabrician Catalogue, which Mr. Trimen, in his paper, 

 recently read before the Entomological Society, seems to have misunderstood ; at p. 224, I observed 

 " The female is much like a large pale variety of the C. Rlmdia of Mr. Doubleday's List ; " unfor- 

 tunately the sheet was printed off before I discovered my error, which I corrected in the next page, 

 " Callii.lrijas Eliiulia, Boisd. (Florella Fabr. ) ;" I had no intention of suggesting the identity of two 

 apparently so distinct species, as C. Pyrcve and C. Florella, nor do I now think, considering the 

 totally diJlerent colouring and pattern of the two, and the fact that the sexes of both have been 

 described, that the capture of a single ill-assorted pair is a sufficient reason for uniting them as modifica- 

 tions of one variable form : I cannot help thinking that the intermediate form mentioned by Mr. Trimen 

 must have been C. Thaurama. 



